THE GODDESS OF FILTHY THINGS, 12 characters. A story inside a story inside a story inside a story. A dramatic labyrinth that attempts to bring the density of the novel and the fluidity of the movies to the stage. At its core—a mystery. What happened to Jerry Green, a writer? His daughter Jessica thinks if she can tell her father's story she'll find him and get him back. The only one who can help her is Jack, who, haunted by Jessica since she was a child, is writing a play about her—the pla...

ELECTRA: THE REWRITE, 8 characters. A wild mix of Greek Tragedy, Vaudeville, and Bob Hope Road movies. Electra, sick of waiting for the return of Orestes to kill Clytemnestra and Aegisthus for the murder of Agamemnon, decides to rewrite what the gods have written and take vengeance with her own hands. Enter Bobhopecles, Apollo's Top Banana, and his sidekick Jerrycolonnus, two entertainers for the Trojan troops, who wander into Agamemnon's courtyard on their way home to Troy. (Bob, a battle...

"Adventure. That's the key word here. Every play in this collection began with a question, a strong scene, image, or situation that haunted me, whose mystery could only be solved by writing it, moving step by step into unknown territory, emboldening me with clues and discoveries, as I moved forward, loving the danger of it, dancing on quicksand. 'We're lucky,' William Carlos Williams tells us, 'when we catch the evasive life of the thing.' With these plays, and the one I'm writing now, I f...

A TUNE BEYOND US or WHAT A REVOLTIN' DEVELOPMENT THIS IS!, 8 characters. A ghost and gangster picture show. Spanning generations, the epic saga of a Jewish Crime Family, with deadly rivalries, multiple scenarios and narratives. Tonight's the night. Jerome Greenspan, aka Cody Jarrett, will take revenge for the murder of his childhood bodyguard Fat Jack The Nail. The same night his sister Midnight Flower and his aunt Shonda The Mother Killer will play out their dream of revenge—against the s...

I HATE WHEN IT GETS DARK SO EARLY, two characters. In a car, traveling as day turns to evening, a wife tells her husband something she's never told him, a thought she's never put into words, spoken aloud. The marriage is shaken. It will never be the same.

MAN RUNNING, an original screenplay, based on a story by Robert M. Young and Edward Pomerantz. Today's the day! The day Lou Robinson has to make up his mind, make a life-changing decision. A day he has to juggle all the jumbled relationships in his life, when he's running late, and there are all these women coming on to him, and a cab driver who quotes Martin Buber, and a traffic tie-up because the Pope is in town, and a chase by the cops who think Lou is a terrorist, led by an Israeli bom...

NOT ON THE MAP, 10 characters. An insane ensemble comedy. Peta Thessaloniki Von Wildergeist Flynn (called Pet), a world-renowned psychoanalyst in her eighties, has retired with her young lover to a not-on-the-map Sicilian farmhouse where no-one with "emotional emergencies" can find her. But then the doorbell rings, and Bobby Vitale, a stranded New York movie director, arrives, his rented car dead on the way to the airport. And then the doorbell rings again…and keeps ringing…with the invasi...

Six Short Plays(to be performed individually, in pairs, or as a complete eveningtitled Dancing On Quicksand)

“Bits and pieces / scraps / what’s left on the barber shop floor / after a haircut / before the barber sweeps up”In this unsentimental poetic memoir, award-winning screenwriter Edward Pomerantz captures significant moments of his life exactly between “before” and “after.” With the precise eye of a filmmaker, the soul of a playwright, he knows exactly how many frames to cut in order to evoke poignant images that are sharp and tender.